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1. Volcano Choir “Island, IS” (Jagjaguwar)
2. Portishead “Chase the Tear” (amnesty.org.uk/portishead.co.uk)
3. Hot Chip “Take it In” (EMI)
4. Vistoso Bosses “Delirious” (Collipark/Interscope)
5. Au Revoir Simone “All or Nothing” (Moshi Moshi)
6. A Sunny Day in Glasgow “Shy” (Mis Ojos)
7. Atlas Sound “Sheila” (Kranky/4AD)
8. AnCo [...]
Wherein I make my play for a programming slot on NPR’s All Songs Considered.
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1. DM Stith “Creekmouth” (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. Here We Go Magic “Fangela” (Western Vinyl)
3. The Books & Jose Gonzales “Cello Song” (4AD/Red Hot)
4. Bat for Lashes “Daniel” (Astralwerks)
5. St. Vincent “Laughing With A Mouth Full of Blood” [...]
First, live: I see a lot of shows. Its really hard to choose. In roughly chronological order…
Gentleman Jesse + Paul Collins Beat @ Bear’s Place (Jan 2009) There was a snowstorm. It was midweek. But a small crowd came out and was completely floored by this amazing performance from a legend and the winner of [...]
My brilliant friends are preparing their year-end lists, which I’ll post here to showcase my good taste in friends (last year’s). After that, I’ll post some longer thoughts (last year’s) and even-longer mixes. For now, a bit of my stuff for that other place. My take on Royksopp’s Junior, which I love, is at the [...]
“Bands are moving from being bands to being one and two pieces because of the economy. It’s really expensive to be in a band right now, so it’s easier to get acclaim by what you post to the internet.”
Like everything else he writes or says, this Eye Weekly interview with Christopher Weingarten is full of [...]
Luke Temple’s voice sure sounds like Paul Simon’s on a few of his tracks as Here We Go Magic, but this ain’t no Kodachrome. I wrote a bit more about the new album here, and if I were to craft a more direct metaphor to a form of media it resembles, or to the [...]
I’ve done a bit of remodeling. A slight bit, and it was actually done a few weeks ago. So. I’ve moved all the links to other worthy sites to its own separate page, whittled it down a bit and added some new pals. There’s also an ever-growing section at the bottom [...]